Pennsylvania school stabbing

Parents and students embrace near Franklin Regional High School after this morning's stabbing spree.

A 16-year-old male student is in custody after authorities say he went through hallways and classrooms with two knives, wounding at least 19 students and one adult at Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville, Pennsylvania, outside Pittsburgh.

Patients were sent to at least five hospitals in the area, with the most seriously injured now being treated at Forbes Regional Hospital Trauma Center.

by Rachel Clarke4/9/2014 3:18:16 PM

Stories of heroes coming?

We're hoping for more details soon, but our affiliate WPXI is reporting that some of the students at Forbes hospital may be heroes, according to a doctor there. It appears they may have been injured protecting other students from the stabbing suspect.

by eliott.mclaughlin4/9/2014 3:24:22 PM

Some students let out

We know many students and staff were held on campus while the emergency teams did their work at what's now a crime scene.

Now we're seeing signs that some areas are being cleared, with students leaving the campus, parents arriving and families being reunited..

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by eliott.mclaughlin edited by Rachel Clarke4/9/2014 3:36:40 PM

Hospital response

Teamwork ruled the day at Forbes Regional Hospital, according Dr. Chris Kaufmann, director of the trauma center. As the victims from the school rolled in, operating rooms were prepped as "physicians of almost every specialty" rushed to respond, he said.

Among those chipping in were anesthesiologists, surgeons, emergency physicians and 20 nurses, Kaufmann says.

by eliott.mclaughlin4/9/2014 3:41:14 PM

Security guard ID'd

William “Buzz” Yakshe has been identified as the school resource officer who helped subdue the 16-year-old suspect, says Dan Stevens, spokesman for the Westmoreland County Department of Public Safety.Yakshe is “doing fine," Stevens told CNN's Shimon Prokupecz. “He’s more upset than anything else over what happened because these are his kids.”

A photo of William “Buzz” Yakshe from the Murrysville Police Department website.

According to the Murrysville Police Department's website, school resource officers receive specialized training from the National Association of School Resource Officers. Yakshe has worked for the Franklin Regional School District for five years. He is one of fewer than six school resource officers with advanced certification in Pennsylvania.

by eliott.mclaughlin4/9/2014 6:51:58 PM

Knife described

We're still striving to find out more about the knives the suspect used in the stabbings. Mia Meixner, a student who witnessed two of her schoolmates being stabbed, said she didn't see the knives herself, but friends described them to her, saying "that they were large and they looked like rulers." Now, doctors are telling reporters the blade on one of the knives was at least an inch wide, according to our affiliate WPXI.